Getting there with my gig history now, the list of every gig I remember going to, from 1987 up to about now.
It's a natural step from my Best Gigs Ever post.
Well that's the theory, but there's A LOT missing.
I have chucked in details from the big bag of old gig tickets that I gathered while I was in London, + a box of old concert tickets + things from Mum and Dad's loft.
Also got lots of gaps regarding festival lineups, they'll probably stay missing, it's so hard to remember. There's a stack missing where I've lost tickets or never had them, most of the guestlist actions during my NME and Popex years and that.
Yeah I know it's a bit geeky, let's let that go though, I'm enjoying remembering these things.
Probably I've not started scanning the tickets in yet Of course I have scanned the tickets now[^But I've lost the bag of tickets before I scanned them all in!]...
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Before I worked there, I think there were bands. THIS is why I left the Wonder Stuff early, doh... There was a ruckus + the police sent us all home.…
Tue Dec 12 2000
"Punktronic excursions in a white noise wonderland", it says here...
Mon Dec 11 2000
Plus Snow Patrol, back when I liked Snow Patrol, but before you like Snow Patrol. Awesome!…
Fri Dec 08 2000
Jim Bob from Carter USM. I went to Uncle Bob's Wedding Reception a lot.…
Sat Dec 02 2000
First time I saw them + I loved them...
Wed Nov 29 2000
Wed Nov 22 2000
Think the year was originally wrong on this one... this link from gigguide.uk.com has it as 2000, sounds about right to me. The Darkness were also playing this night at the Monarch / Barfly, so I was at this.…
Sat Nov 18 2000
AKA Hooverdam. Cosmic Rough Riders headlined, a Poptones night.…
Tue Nov 07 2000
Or some band connected with them. They were dressed as KISS I think, did they do KISS covers too? Was this the band that Chris Dale from Atom Seed was also in? Two gigs in one night, very drunk by the time I got to this one...…
Tue Nov 07 2000
Tue Nov 07 2000
AKA Camden Crawl... All around Camden, not sure who I saw this year, not a lot.…
Thu Oct 19 2000
I didn't like it it seems, shame, I thought I liked Spearmint!…
Thu Oct 12 2000
At Uncle Bob's Wedding Reception, two gigs in one day (Scalarama was an all day type thing) I remember the new line up of The 'Cocks + the cheerleaders...…
Sat Oct 07 2000
MJ Hibbett, Jacques, Spearmint, Baxendale + lots of other bands…
Sat Oct 07 2000
And Elevator Suite, so we were there to see Cousteau.I think flatmate Emma was doing press for Cousteau.…
Wed Oct 04 2000
Some special Radio One thing, got a nice freebie from friends I was about to start working with at Channelfly. Green Day picked some kids out of the audience and made them play a song.…
Fri Sep 15 2000
and Alfie, Barfly sessions daytime thing recorded for Television. Can't remember if I stayed for Idlewild in the evening.…
Thu Sep 07 2000
Placebo, Queens of the Stone Age, Slipknot, Gorky's, Foo Fighters, Ween, Primal Scream, Daphne + Celeste, JJ72, SFA, + You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, At The Drive In...I was on a freebie from Uncle Bob's, did I not watch the headliners at all? I don't remember many of the bands off the poster, no Oasis, Pulp (though we did go to the Pulp warm up a day or so before), Rage Against The Machine ect ect. Was I just way too cool? Is this one of the years we booked a hotel too? I do remember Daphne + Celeste.This says I did not stay for Stereophonics, then this says I hardly saw any bands!.…
Fri Aug 25 2000
Tickets say "Keep Calm", it was a warmup for Reading in a few days time.Howard Marks and Chris Morris were there amongst others.I think a friend Dan who was working at Ticketmaster tipped us off to this.…
Tue Aug 22 2000
They did a 10 kebab challenge on stage + Daphne + Celeste were there. + so was I!…
Wed Aug 16 2000
Don't recall if they did their "Hamster Dance" single, I do remember an ace cover of "Self Esteem", though I could possibly be mixing it up with an earlier Helen Love gig... Plus The Fighting Cocks.…
Tue Aug 08 2000
Featuring Gene's Matt the Hat.Not counting this as a Gene gig, he was just djing[^And then I changed my mind again + I am counting it as I see I counted Elastica doing the same thing later this year.].…
Sat Aug 05 2000
Another "Barfly Sessions" TV thing, free + in the afternoon I think. Pretty poor.…
Wed Aug 02 2000
Another Barfly Sessions, evening or just later afternoon this one.…
Wed Aug 02 2000
A birthday night out, just after she was Mercury nominated.I thought this attended Spitz, in Spitalfields Market, so I have it down here as being at Dingwalls. Did we go twice?…
Thu Jul 27 2000
Somewhere, can't remember where this gig was but I mentioned it on popex it was on Saturday._To coincide with the single, the band have announced two London shows at the Wag Club on July 22, + Borders Bookshop (August 1).__The Borders gig is free, with the band on stage at 6.15pm, while the Wag Club show is part of the popular Blow Up club night._…
Fri Jul 21 2000
Excellent, good to see his Blur bandmates turning out to cheer him on the audience too, Damon was pogoing away like a goodun.…
Fri Jul 14 2000
Wed Jun 28 2000
Loved BLOODHOUND GANG, David Bowie, Pet Shop Boys, + Travis...…
Thu Jun 22 2000
Broadcast LIVE on the internets apparently, when this was not the common thing it is now.
Tue May 30 2000
Seems I fell down an escalator after this one[^Was it actually the longest escalator in London too? Surely not!].
Wed May 24 2000
These boys can play!Went to see David Devant + His Spirit Wife a lot + it was always awesome.…
Sat May 20 2000
Free gig for XFM, who gave me FIFTY tickets to give away...…
Thu May 18 2000
Plus Mica Bomb + Reverend Pike. Rosita were two of Kenickie and Mica Bomb were connected to the singer of the Sultans of Ping I'm sure... Was he managing them maybe? Or was one of them his partner/…
Tue May 09 2000
Think I attended this anyway, lunchtime gig for Japanese TV, did a few of these...…
Sat Apr 29 2000
Anthony Reynolds and Matthew Scott, Jack basically, I preferred the whole band, but still good.…
Wed Apr 26 2000
Plus ...Trail Of Dead, awesome. There was another Trail of Dead show just days before this, not sure it's the Highbury Garage show I'm thinking of, but maybe.…
Wed Apr 19 2000
Club Maker night. Thom Yorke performed with Drugstore, and Michael Stipe was in the crowd. Support from The Bigger The God and Groupie + double gin for a pound.…
Tue Mar 14 2000
Got in free because of the support, think it was Ben and Jason. Not much cop anyway.
Sun Mar 12 2000
One of The Bigger The God was a friend from the uk-indie mailing list. Says here I was going to the gig so it's going on the list. I did go and see them several times. Support from Interseed, Hester Thrale and Angel Delay apparently. I liked the Bull And Gate a lot.…
Thu Mar 09 2000
NME Brats show, think they were quite past their prime by this point...Plus Fridge, Zan Lyons and Contempo^So no David Devant connection then.] apparently[^Removed old nme.com/news/music/brats-1387207 link here.]. Nope, me either. I always remember [the NME Brats shows as having a better lineup than this, but maybe it was only the ones I didn't go to?…
Sat Jan 29 2000
NME Brats show, with Gorkys Zygotic Mynci and Sigur Ros apparently. Lovely write up:_Flash forward a few years to the Beta Band in January 2000, at an NME Brats show. I don't really remember much, other than that I was with a big group of my gigging mates in the upstairs bit, we were all trolleyed o_ah chopped some of it off, I think that was from Stu originally.…
Tue Jan 25 2000